Fair point, and to test I turned the lap top I'm using (a Macbook Pro 16:9) 90 degrees clockwise and - yes - the screen, as a page, looks a tad skinny. Almost like a 'small broadsheet newspaper', if that makes sense.
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:24:30 -0800 Subject: Re: [USMA:46522] RE: IPad From: [email protected] To: [email protected] CC: [email protected] Ah, but the screen isn't 16:9, as it turns out. Various blog posts (such as http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2010/01/28/ipad-43-screen-bad-movies-good-books-web/ ) have pointed out that the aspect ratio of the 1024 × 768 screen works out to be more like 4:3 (think analogue TV) rather than today's dare-I-say trendy 16:9 widescreen. But, given that Web browsing and e-book reading are two of the things this device is made for, that make a lot of sense (otherwise, things would look quite skinny when read in portrait orientation in a 9:16 format). When I saw the half-inch thick measurement of the iPad, the thought occurred to me that the industrial designers in Cupertino weren't carefully plotting out this thing in nice round-number millimetres. His Steveness probably offhandedly said, "Make it a half-inch thick," and, well, you know—whatever he wants, he gets. :-) —Kent On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Stephen Humphreys <[email protected]> wrote: On the news here in the UK they say its 10 inches - however this is likely to be the diagonal measure - the screen is likely to be 16:9 ratio so I guess it's time to check up with Mr Pythagorus ! ;-) _________________________________________________________________ Tell us your greatest, weirdest and funniest Hotmail stories http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/
